2011 - 2012 Undergraduate Catalog | Business Management (Bus M) Courses

BUS M 180 : Business Career Lecture Series. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
DESCRIPTION:	Lecture series exploring various business career alternatives.

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BUS M 199R : Academic Internship. (1-3:ARR:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Consent of internship coordinator.
DESCRIPTION:	Supervised experience for nonbusiness students either in service or business-related work.

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BUS M 200 : Personal Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Practical course in money management and utilizing savings.

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BUS M 201 : Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Acc 200 or equivalent.
DESCRIPTION:	Financial statement analysis, financial planning, sources of financing, working capital management, risk and return, and valuation.
NOTE:	For non-management majors.

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BUS M 205R : Planning for Financial Security at Retirement. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

DESCRIPTION:

Fundamentals of good financial management necessary for successful retirement.

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BUS M 241 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Marketing's role in society and the firm, marketing opportunities, the consumer market, and management of marketing mix.
NOTE:	For non-management majors.

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BUS M 301 : Financial Management. (3:3:1.5)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
DESCRIPTION:	Financial management from the viewpoint of the business manager emphasizing profitability, liquidity, and long-range financial planning.

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BUS M 320 : Career Orientation and Preparation. (.5:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into Marriott School.
DESCRIPTION:	Student orientation and preparation for careers in management.
NOTE:	Must be taken first semester in Marriott School.

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BUS M 321 : Mentor Program. (.5:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into Marriott School.
DESCRIPTION:	Discussions with outside mentor about career opportunities.
NOTE:	Must be taken first semester in Marriott School.

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BUS M 341 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
DESCRIPTION:	Market segmentation, product service, promotion, channel, pricing strategies. Marketing principles in consumer and industrial markets, profit and nonprofit organizations, domestic and international companies, and small and large firms.

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BUS M 361 : Introduction to Supply Chain and Operations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Acceptance into the Marriott School.
DESCRIPTION:	Managing and designing processes and people along the value chain.

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BUS M 371R : Entrepreneurship Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by successful entrepreneurs on subjects significant to entrepreneur-type opportunities.

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BUS M 372 : Basic Entrepreneurship Skills. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
DESCRIPTION:	Practical aspects of business formation and growth; key skills and principles needed to successfully start up and grow a business.
NOTE:	For non-Marriott School of Management students.

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BUS M 373R : Entrepreneur Field Studies. (.5-3:ARR:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Completion of department core courses.

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BUS M 380 : Executive Lectures. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by top executives on subjects significant to executive leadership.

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BUS M 382 : Financial Services Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by executives on financial services topics.

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BUS M 384 : E-Business Lecture Series. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Lectures by e-business leaders on subjects significant to e-business-type opportunities.

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BUS M 389R : Current Topics in Leadership. (1:15:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

DESCRIPTION:

Lectures by leading experts (top executives, faculty, etc.) on current leadership topics dealing with business, organizations, communities, and families.

Course Outcomes

BUS M 390 : Ethics for Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	Premanagement and Management 1 cores and full acceptance into the Marriott School upper-division major.
DESCRIPTION:	Analyzing ethical dilemmas and understanding ethical theories as they apply to decision making in management.

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BUS M 401 : Advanced Financial Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Major status; B+ or better in Bus M 301.
DESCRIPTION:	Capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure/dividends, mergers and acquisitions, and current financial problems.

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BUS M 402 : Managerial Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Accounting junior core; major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Overview of financial management issues including capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure/dividends, and long-term financial planning.

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BUS M 405 : Management of Financial Institutions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Management problems of commercial banks and nonbank financial institutions, emphasizing balance sheet management, regulation, and the process of intermediation.

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BUS M 406 : Insurance and Financial Services Academy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; major status.
DESCRIPTION:	The process of identifying, measuring, and dealing with personal risk. Introduction to property/casualty as well as life and health insurance issues and products.

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BUS M 407 : Risk Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Management of risk exposures in a business setting. The process of identifying, measuring, and dealing with risk. Coverage includes both traditional insurable risks and financial risks.

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BUS M 409 : Investment Management Academy. (3:1:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Bus M 410 or concurrent enrollment.
DESCRIPTION:	Hands-on opportunity to work with security markets and perform security analysis. Builds on theory of investment development in Bus M 410.

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BUS M 410 : Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Security markets, security analysis, and portfolio management.

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BUS M 411 : Advanced Investments. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301 & BUS M 410; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Current investment literature, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, capital assets pricing, options pricing theory.

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BUS M 412 : Investments Academy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
RECOMMENDED:	Bus M 410.
DESCRIPTION:	Applying financial principles to practical investment problems; insights into the investment banking profession.

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BUS M 413 : Real Estate Finance and Investment. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Terminology, concepts, principles, and analytical techniques related to financing of and investment in real estate.

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BUS M 414 : Real Estate Development. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
RECOMMENDED:	Bus M 413.
DESCRIPTION:	Applying financial and real estate principles to practical property investments; insights into the real estate profession.

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BUS M 415R : Portfolio Management. (1.5:1:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 409
DESCRIPTION:	Team management of actual investment portfolio. Responsibility for economic forecasts, security selection, and portfolio strategy

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BUS M 417 : Analysis for Investment Bankers. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 401
DESCRIPTION:	Exploring the skills used by investment bankers including industry analysis, financial statement analysis, and valuation; the underwriting issues such as security characteristics, embedded options, swaps, convertibles, and other hybrid securities.

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BUS M 418 : Financial Planning. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

OFFERED:	Independent Study also.
WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Applying financial principles to household decision making, stressing integration between areas. Income tax and estate planning, retirement, investments, portfolio management, and risk management.

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BUS M 419 : Real Estate Analysis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
RECOMMENDED:	Bus M 413.
DESCRIPTION:	Real estate financial investment and valuation analysis incorporating contemporary case studies; advanced analytical techniques, including simulation analysis and advanced valuation and portfolio analysis.

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BUS M 430 : Introduction to International Business. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Complexities confronting U.S. firms and their management in international environments. Emphasizes functional and planning areas, including organization, market research, financial analysis.

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BUS M 431 : International Marketing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
RECOMMENDED:	Bus m 430.
DESCRIPTION:	International market entry strategies, export marketing, joint ventures, and other market entry modes. Regional/National markets; cultural, political, legal environments. Negotiations, trade financing, marketing mix.

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BUS M 432 : International Corporate Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 301; Major status.
RECOMMENDED:	Bus M 430.
DESCRIPTION:	Financial aspects of multinational corporations operating within an international environment; direct foreign investment, foreign exchange regulations, capital markets, etc.

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BUS M 440 : Database Marketing: Mining and Analysis. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Key issues in managing and developing online marketing databases for segmenting markets and developing marketing tactics. In-depth development of data mining techniques and advanced statistical analysis

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BUS M 441 : High-Tech Marketing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Strategies in managing high-tech products and services, including the role of promotion, target selection, pricing, product development, and connecting to customers.

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BUS M 442 : Marketing Research. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts and methodology for conducting marketing research. Emphasis on solving problems faced by the marketing manager. Consulting research project required.

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BUS M 444 : Consumer Behavior. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Mental and emotional processes and physical actions that people engage in when selecting, purchasing, using, and discarding products and services to satisfy consumer needs and desires.

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BUS M 448 : Competitive Intelligence. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	0verview of the intelligence process including information collection, intelligence analysis, dissemination, ethics and establishing the process from a managerial perspective.

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BUS M 450 : Global Business Negotiations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Developing an effective negotiation framework for cross-national/cultural negotiation techniques relative to business and other life situations.

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BUS M 454 : Professional Selling and Sales Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts of professional selling and sales management including personal selling skills; strategic role of personal selling; organizing, directing, controlling, and evaluating the sales force.

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BUS M 455 : Promotion Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Strategies in promoting business and nonbusiness products, services, and institutions, including the role of promotion, target selection, media and copy decisions, and marketing research.

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BUS M 456 : Retailing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Selection, location, and management of retail stores and systems, emphasizing profitability and integration of accounting, finance, and economic concepts and tools.

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BUS M 457 : Internet Marketing of Products and Services. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Integrates product, research, sales, and promotional strategy and concepts into an overall marketing plan for developing an Internet business. Term project developing an Internet business required.

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BUS M 458R : Seminar in Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BusM 340 or 341.
DESCRIPTION:	Selected marketing issues, quantitative techniques and forecasting, advertising management, and industrial management.

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BUS M 459 : Marketing Strategy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341 & BUS M 442; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Integration of finance, marketing, and case studies in economic concepts and techniques in marketing decision making and planning.

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BUS M 461 : Operations Analysis and Problem Solving. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Methods and tools necessary for analyzing and solving problems associated with operations, services, and supply chain management.

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BUS M 462 : Services Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Management principles and characteristics of service industries and service aspects of supply chains: sources of strategic advantage; process analysis and tools; quality.

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BUS M 463 : Quality Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts of quality management, strategic issues, philosophies, and tools such as Six Sigma and SQC used to control quality.

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BUS M 464 : Integrated Product Development. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Strategies, processes, tools, and methods in product and process development, emphasizing initial stages of market and competitive assessment to concept development.

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BUS M 465 : Global Supply Chain. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	The emerging rules of a global marketplace and their influence on key supply chain activities and processes.

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BUS M 466 : Purchasing and Supply Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Focuses on upstream supply chain activities of supplier selection, management, and development. Negotiation, costing, product development, and commodity analysis.

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BUS M 468 : Supply Chain Logistics. (3:3.0:0.0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Integration of materials management (inbound transportation), physical distribution (outbound transportation), inventory, warehousing, facility location, customer service, packaging, and materials handling.

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BUS M 469 : Global Supply Chain Strategy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 361; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Integrative and creative problem solving in designing and managing cohesive value-added conversion/transformation systems in a global environment.

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BUS M 472 : Entrepreneurial Marketing. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 341; Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Marketing strategies for start-up companies. Topics include marketing to investors, internal marketing, and how to market products/services without a marketing budget.

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BUS M 473 : Creating New Ventures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	Business management core; major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Creating and operating new ventures through the funding stage. Building a business plan through analyzing ideas, customers, markets, and potential financial performance.

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BUS M 474 : Managing New Ventures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Business management core; major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Operating and growing high-tech or growth businesses after creating a new venture and securing funding.

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BUS M 475 : Financing New Ventures. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Business management core; major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts and skills of entrepreneurship, emphasizing how new and emerging companies are financed. Applying functional tools to case situations.

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BUS M 480 : Strategy 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	ACC 200 & MATH 110 & ECON 110 & STAT 121
DESCRIPTION:	Structured problem solving, strategic thinking, and basic strategy concepts to prepare students to analyze and understand the sources of competitive advantage and superior firm performance.

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BUS M 481 : Strategy 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 480
DESCRIPTION:	Advanced strategy topics such as growth and diversification strategy, pricing strategy, game theory and competitor analysis, strategy as real options, and strategic flexibility and commitment.

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BUS M 482 : Strategy Implementation. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 481
DESCRIPTION:	Integrative course on strategy formulation and implementation, including a field study. Topics include organizational alignment (structure and processes that fit the stragety), change management, and strategic leadership.

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BUS M 483R : Topics in Strategy. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

PREREQUISITE:	Major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Topics and instructors vary.

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BUS M 488 : Agribusiness Management 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	ACC 200 & ECON 110; Bus M 201 or 241 or concurrent enrollment.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts, tools, and approaches to understanding competitive forces and the development of sustainable competitive advantage for firms in the food, fiber, and horticulture industries.

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BUS M 489 : Agribusiness Management 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	BUS M 241; Acc 200 (or equivalent), Econ 110 (or equivalent).
DESCRIPTION:	Developing and implementing marketing plans and programs for companies participating in the value chain of agribusiness industries.

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BUS M 490R : Topics in Business Management. (.5-3:Arr:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
DESCRIPTION:	Current business-related topics varying by semester and section.

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BUS M 491R : Social Innovation Projects. (1-3:Arr.:Arr.)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Direct, practical on-campus (not in the field) and off-campus experience consulting with established and recognized social innovators and their social ventures. Students are accepted to work on specific projects based on their skills. Students apply to be involved in specific projects. Credit offered will depending upon the project's scope and intensity.

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BUS M 493 : Entrepreneurial Projects. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
PREREQUISITE:	Major status; Management Integrated Core.
DESCRIPTION:	Directed practical experience in launching a business. Combination of strong academic base along with hands-on business development.

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BUS M 494R : On-Campus Experiential Projects. (3:1:Arr)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Direct, practical on-campus (not in the field) professional experience consulting with established and startup companies and organizations. Students are accepted to work on specific projects based on their skills, interests, and major emphasis. Students apply to be involved in specific projects.

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BUS M 495R : E-Business Projects. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	On Demand
PREREQUISITE:	Instructor's consent.
DESCRIPTION:	Consulting/Field studies projects in e-business.

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BUS M 496R : Academic Internship. (1-3:ARR:ARR)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Consent of internship coordinator.
DESCRIPTION:	Supervised experience for business majors either in service or business-related work. Opportunity to link learning with practical field applications.

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BUS M 497R : Capital Markets Academy. (3:1:2)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Teams work on live, market-sensitive projects for financial services organizations, including private equity, private wealth, insurance companies, and asset management.

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BUS M 498 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	Major status; Management Integrated Core.
DESCRIPTION:	Concepts, tools, and approaches to understand competitive forces and to systematically and consistently develop sustainable competitive advantages.

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BUS M 509 : Communication in Professional Service Firms. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter; Spring; Summer
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Theory and application of written and oral communication for professional service firms.

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BUS M 520 : Business Finance. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Short-term financing of a business operation. Developing techniques for financial planning, such as analysis of ratios, profitability, and liquidity.

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BUS M 530 : Operations Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Examining issues and tools in production and operations management. Specific tools for forecasting, planning, inventory control, and project management presented and developed.

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BUS M 538 : Managing Entrepreneurial Firms and Family Businesses. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Winter
DESCRIPTION:	Issues and problems facing managers of entrepreneurial enterprises and leaders of family-owned businesses. Includes start-up, growth, and exit strategies. Consulting project required.

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BUS M 540 : Organizational Behavior. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Analysis of individual, group, and organizational variables that inhibit or facilitate effective organizational functioning. Topics include motivation, rewards, leadership, conflict, decision making, structure, evaluation, and change.

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BUS M 550 : Marketing Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Development of analytical marketing tools and techniques; their utilization in case analysis and decision making in marketing management.

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BUS M 571 : Entrepreneurial Perspective. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall
DESCRIPTION:	Developing awareness of and ability to apply existing knowledge about entrepreneurship to make better decisons when starting, growing, and harvesting business ventures.

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BUS M 581 : Strategic Management. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE:	MAcc or MISM major status.
DESCRIPTION:	Top-management approach to problems of determining corporate strategy. Structured for accounting and information systems students.

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BUS M 596R : Business Language. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

WHEN TAUGHT:	Fall; Winter
DESCRIPTION:	For experienced speakers of the language being taught. Emphasizes business concepts; practice and case study including conversation, reading,and presenting, while enriching business vocabulary.

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